The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-12
THE GOSPEL.
Despite Persecution and OPP
position 1t ThriyeS.
THE DIsCOURsEs ON SUNDAY.
Elders Milo Andrus ana Junius L
wells Address the Congregation
at the Tabernacle.

At the Tabernacle, on Sunday after
noon last, the services were begun by inc
choir and congregation singing tee
hymn commencing:
Great God. attend while Zion sings
The JOY that from Thy presence springs
To spend one dav with Thee On earth
Exceeds thousand days of mirth
Prayer by Elder George F. Gibbs.
Singing by the choir of the hymn,
How great the wisdom and the love,
That flpd the courts on high,
And sent the Savior from above
To suffer, bleed and die!
ELDER MILO ANDRUs realized that 1t
required some exertion on the part of
speaker to make himself heard in the
large building. He also realized that
the Saints were passing through very
interesting period, so interesting, in fact,
that if the Saints thoroughly
understood it they would reform
and do better. The feature OF
the condition of the Saints at the
present was calculated to cause them
to reflect upon their duties. 1t was
gratifying, he said, to note the progress
and increased diligence among the
people. During the fifty-sIx years he
had been Identified with the church he
had preached the gospel to many In
various parts of the world. He had
learned that opposition was a great
fertilizer. He often thought the work
was clearly represented in the parable
of the Savior, in which the Kingdom OF
God was likened into a sower. Some
seed fell in stony places and consider
able ha5 been sc sowed bv the elders OF
to-day, who were doing their sowing by
a system of drilling. Others fell where
there was not much soil, and it grew
uicker; but the earth was shallow; the
class represented by this portion dried
out and withered up. Other seed fell
where the earth was properly titled and
the Weld was some thirty, some forty
and some hundred fold that class had
received the gospel in well-prepared
hearts; their faith had been firmly
rooted and grounded in the truth, and
no storms or adverse circumstances
could cause tn m to depart from the
truth. Elder Audrus related the cir
cumstances of the man who was blind,
healed by the power of God His. restora-
ton to siaht had been questioned as the
result OF a scientific principle or what?
After being made to see the man said
that where he was once blind he could
now see. The Saints could say the
same, for they had once dwelt in dark
ness and now lived in the light of the
gospel of Christ. God was working
marvellous work and q wonder. A friend
of his had written to the speaker, &
hope the time will soon come when the
government officials will have some
thing else to do besides breaking up
innocent families and causing mourn
ing and Iamentation in Utah." There
] was no need of this condition of affairs
| if the Saints lived nearer to God.
Remarking concerning the disfran-
chisement of females by, the Tucker
law, he addressed the women, and ad-
yised them TO so control their sons that
they would valiantly contend for the
gospel. The arch-enemy OF man
kind was ever on the alert to STIR
up strife, whenever matters were
moving along smoothly. He strenu-
ously advocated the observance of the
laws OF the land. There was consider
able objection 10 the course of the Lat
ter-day Saints, he said; but what was
their course? They met III the morn
/ ing in Sabbath schools, in the after
noon they partook of the Sacrament
and in the evening they went TO testify
of the truth and of the goodness OF
God. He was pleased to know there
twas nothing sinful in this regard, and
that 1t had been the course pursued by
tie Saints during the fifty-six years Of
his connection with the church. The
teachings of the elders were calculated
80 build up good young men anC
Tf Eider Andrus rslkred to the condi-
Son of the people IN the north. They
.lfelt good, he said; he himself had beer
counselled to keep quiet while unde
bonds, out he thanked God he lhaC
never been gagged and Fever would b,
in the expression of his convictions
He was from Connecticut, having beer
born there just after the reYolutionar!
war, when there was great JOY a
the triumph over the tyranny @
England. His father, he said, was il
the war of 1872, and he himself had in
herited the principles of liberty and ha,
5 never been without a Constitution il
+ lis house to read, and to take ava,
:, liberty from him was hard to bear. a
the Saints would try TO do what wa
right; they would continue to do sc
With them it was the Kingdom of GO
or nothing. They will labor for tn
) establishment of righteousness on til
earth.
He was pleased with the prophet
vein running through the addresses a
the late Conference. He referred t
the boasts of the enemies of the Saint;
with regard to the failure OF the wor
of God; the attempts OF the MODS |
kill the Mormons off. and the dealing
: of their persecu ors. He spoke {
their evil deeds and OF one occasio
when several elders had been deprive
of their arms in Jackson County an
were told they would never see the
4. leaders nor bishops again. He had ha
the pleasure of seeing some of them las
5 Sunday.
i. He counseled the Saints ,
: be WISE to talk with discretion
3, every word should be well cor
sidered, and trust in God and keep the